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Author
Publisher
Turner
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The beloved baseball classic now available in paperback, with a new prologue by Jim Bouton. When Ball Four was first published in 1970, it hit the sports world like a lightning bolt. Commissioners, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and social leper. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social...
2) Ball Four
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Language
English
Description
When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a "social leper" for having violated the "sanctity of the clubhouse." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn't true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn't read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries.
Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four. Fans liked discovering...
3) Foul Ball
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Series
Language
English
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A rollicking and "compelling" true story of baseball, big money, and small-town politics by the author of the classic Ball Four (Publishers Weekly).
Host to organized baseball since 1892, Pittsfield, Massachusetts's Wahconah Park was soon to be abandoned by the owner of the Pittsfield Mets, who would move his team to a new stadium in another town-an all too familiar story. Enter former Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton and his partner with the best deal...
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